Necmi Çoban

“But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secret - that some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake who nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real... and who, when you got right down to it, didn't want to remember, because it hurt even more than this.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“You try to tell yourself that you hate the call centre. You should. It’s degrading. For eight hours a day strangers tell you over and over that you’re a cunt. You apologise for this.”
― Rose Keating, Oddbody

“Is love not a power of its own?” I murmur. “For those lucky enough.” Her voice is even. It always is. “But for most, it means certain death.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearful

“I saw it from the beginning, when robots couldn't speak, to the end, when they stand between mankind and destruction. I will see no more. My life is over. You will see what comes next.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot